mediawiki/article-placeholder
Provides a special page with Wikibase information about a certain topic, with invitation to create an article for the topic
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Package info
github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-ArticlePlaceholder
Type:mediawiki-extension
pkg:composer/mediawiki/article-placeholder
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GPL-2.0-or-later 9b30e01ca5c040c1d9bcca3a6307696770b060de
- Lucie-Aimée Kaffee
This package is auto-updated.
Last update: 2026-06-26 05:46:09 UTC
README
Introduction to ArticlePlaceholder
The ArticlePlaceholder is a MediaWiki extension. Read the detailed documentation at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticlePlaceholder
ArticlePlaceholder enables placeholder pages on Wikibase Client installations using data of the repository.
The file includes/Template/Wikidata-P18.xml shouldn't be used in production but is for testing purposes.
Installation
Dependencies
ArticlePlaceholder requires
- MediaWiki
- Wikibase Client, connected to a Wikibase Repo
- Scribunto for the display of the content
- Cite for the display of the references on a placeholder page
- ContentTranslation (optional) for creating new articles based on existing ones in other languages
Configuration
wfLoadExtension( 'ArticlePlaceholder' );
needs to be set in the LocalSettings.php of your MediaWiki Installation.
There are multiple settings for the ArticlePlaceholder, which can be configured, a list can be found on the MediaWiki page of the extension.
Set-up
In order to be able to actually use the functionalities of the special page and the Lua module, it is necessary to import (via Special:Import or the importDump.php maintenance script) the Template and Module AboutTopic. These are located in the extension folder in includes/Template.
Optionally to enable the ordering of properties on the ArticlePlaceholder pages, your wiki needs a page with a list of sorted properties. This page needs to be called MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties.